State Duma News

Roberto Fico: Italian parliamentarians advocate return of the Russian delegation to PACE

President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Italian Republic Roberto Fico spoke at the plenary session after a bilateral meeting with the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin

Viacheslav Volodin named one of the priorities of relations between Russia and Italy

"Issues of humanitarian cooperation and cultural exchanges are one of the priorities of our mutual decisions," said the Chairman of the State Duma during a bilateral meeting with President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament Roberto Fico. The parties also discussed the development of inter-parliamentary interaction and economic cooperation

Leonid Slutskiy called the Presidential Decree on the suspension of the INF Treaty as a forced and symmetrical measure

At the same time, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs stressed that this is not about Russia’s withdrawal from the treaty, the Russian Federation is only “freezing its obligations under the INF Treaty”

Viacheslav Volodin met with President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

The meeting participants exchanged views on the Russia-US relations, discussed the humanitarian projects, as well as the possibility of intensifying contacts between the State Duma and the US Congress

Viacheslav Volodin: Russian delegation will ask to assess the situation in Venezuela at the session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin announced this at a meeting with Executive Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez. The parties discussed the situation in the Republic, stressing the importance of observing the norms of international law and the principles of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states

Leonid Slutskiy commented on the results of the second USA-DPRK summit

The summit showed that "issues of North Korean settlement shall not be left only to Washington alone," said the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs

Member of the State Duma commented on the statement of Andrzej Duda about the expansion of the US military presence in Poland

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Aleksei Chepa stated that “this is another unfriendly step of Poland towards Russia.” “The decision will only aggravate the already difficult relationship, complicate the entire geopolitical situation not only in Poland but also in Europe in general,” the parliamentarian said

Vasilii Piskarev: Russian and Chinese parliamentarians agreed to share experience in combating cyberterrorism

According to the Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control, “we need to cooperate with Chinese partners because we have something to learn from each other so that we can use the best practices”

Sergei Gavrilov took part in the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean

The parliamentarian also met with the leadership of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. The participants of the meeting discussed issues of disarmament, non-deployment of medium-range and short-range missiles in Europe, protection of the rights of Christians, in particular, in Ukraine

Petr Tolstoy: non-admission of Russian observers to the presidential elections in Ukraine violates OSCE principles

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, the head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly made this statement during the meeting of the Standing Committee of the OSCE PA in Vienna

Vasilii Piskarev will discuss the issues of a fight against cybercrime, terrorism, and corruption with the Chinese parliamentarians

Joint work at the level of parliamentary committees will strengthen practical cooperation between the lawmakers of the two countries, the head of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control stressed

Presidential Address to Federal Assembly

The President of Russia delivered the Address to the Federal Assembly. The ceremony took place in Gostiny Dvor. The presentation of the Address was attended by Federation Council members, State Duma deputies, members of the Government, leaders of the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, governors

Head of the Information Committee commented on the blocking of the RT video project on Facebook

The absence of clear Facebook’s explanations on blocking the RT video project suggests an ordered nature of these actions, aimed at putting pressure on media projects broadcasting a different point of view than those indicated by Western governments, Leonid Levin believes

Members of the State Duma commented on foreign media reports on the possibility of new anti-Russian sanctions

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, noted that “the West prefers to blame Russia for everything, over and over again, for reasons that are absolutely far-fetched”, though the only ones against whom any restrictions could be imposed for the incident in the Kerch Strait are the current Kiev authorities headed by President Petr Poroshenko

Viacheslav Volodin and Andrej Danko discussed new formats of dialogue between Russia and Slovakia

Separately, the Chairman of the State Duma and the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic discussed the issue of harmonization of legislation in the digital sphere